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GERRY MODDEJONGE, QMI Agency

Dec 11, 2010

, Last Updated: 12:53 AM ET

Unconventional, unorthodox and unnecessary.

And those were the nice things Steven Stamkos had to say about Linus Omark’s shootout winner, which incorporated a false start, a full 360 and a slap on the ice with his stick blade before blasting the puck through the pads of Dan Ellis in the third round Friday night.

“I didn’t think it showed a lot of respect in this game,” said Stamkos, who missed his shootout attempt in Round 2.

“I mean, you don’t see Crosby or Ovechkin doing that and they’re the two best players in the game.

“(Omark’s) a creative player, he’s got good skill. I’m not taking that away from him, but it didn’t really have any implication on his moves, so I don’t know why he did that.”

Stamkos tied the score 3-3 in the third period, salvaging a point in the road loss and breaking a six-goal scoreless streak in the process.

“It’s my first little slump, and hopefully it’s the last,” said Stamkos, who scored 21 goals in 22 games heading into the drought.

“It’s going to happen. Every player goes through it once in a while, I’d rather get it out of the way in the first half of the season and bear down in the next couple games.”

The Lightning had a bear hug the final 20 minutes of regulation.

“I don’t know if they even got a shot in the third period,” said Stamkos, who must have blinked when Dustin Penner got the Oilers’ lone puck on net.

“We absolutely dominated them, their goalie made some big saves. We didn’t deserve that kind of fate tonight; we threw everything at them in the third.”

Tampa Bay outshot the Oilers 41-23.

“We really took it to them, we almost doubled them in shots and our goalie made some big saves in OT,” said Stamkos. “It was just one of those games that got away.”